© 2021 University of Toronto. All rights reserved.The figure of the Revolutionary or independence fighter, or indeed the Afro-Cuban maroon, is a fundamental trope of efficacy in Cuban Spiritism. But the question of the ...

In 1748, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, published his masterpiece, The Spirit of the Laws. The French intellectual argued that the state’s political authority should be separated into three independent ...

The fate of eight fungicides (benalaxyl, fenarimol, iprodione, metalaxyl, myclobutanil, procymidone, triadimefon, and vinclozolin) and five insecticides (dimethoate, fenthion, methidathion, parathion methyl, and quinalphos) ...

The fate of eight fungicides (benalaxyl, fenarimol, iprodione, metalaxyl, myclobutanil, procymidone, triadimefon, and vinclozolin) and five insecticides (dimethoate, fenthion, methidathion, parathion methyl, and quinalphos) ...

We analysed the impact of operation variability on the composition of pear spirits obtained with a Charentais alembic and a packed distillation column. Lack of reproducibility significantly affected the spirits' compositions, ...

Herein, we report the concentration of ethyl carbamate (EC) and copper in 380 samples of sugar-cane spirit and 45 samples of manioc spirit as determined by GC-MS and FAAS respectively. The cyanide content determined ...

In the episodic novel Boa Nova, the extraphysical author Humberto de Campos (2015) recounts, through Chico Xavier's psychography, thirty chapters, episodes of the life of Jesus, in which he fictionalizes the biblical matter ...

Fig fruits (Ficus carica L.) are used in several Mediterranean countries to produce alcoholic spirits, with either plurivarietal dried figs or, monovarietal fresh figs as the raw material. To determine the influence of ...